the tale of a routine execution that gave birth to a new religion. yet from that unlikely beginning a great faith was born. and today some 2 billion people believe jesus was the son of god. but even as billions of people pledge themselves to follow jesus' teachings, we have known almost nothing about jesus, the man. no other great religious figure, from moses to the buddha to the prophet muhammad, is so shrouded in mystery. >> it's very difficult to classify jesus within a single category, whether he was a sage or a healer or a teacher or a charismatic figure. and i suspect the most accurate response to the question, "who was jesus at the time?" would be a mixture of all of these different identifications. >> the startling discovery of what some claim to be the burial box of jesus' brother james reopened the biggest detective story of all time -- the mystery of jesus, the man. the plain limestone container, called an ossuary, is inscribed with a tantalizing clue in aramaic, the language jesus spoke. "james, son of joseph, brother of jesus." the publi